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North Uist, Loch Nan Garbh Chlachan, Dun Ban
Causeway (Prehistoric), Dun (Prehistoric)
Site Name North Uist, Loch Nan Garbh Chlachan, Dun Ban
Classification Causeway (Prehistoric), Dun (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 10240
Site Number NF86SE 1
NGR NF 86089 60114
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10240
- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF86SE 1 8605 6012.
(Area: NF 860 601) Dun Ban Hacklett is situated on a rocky islet in Loch nan Garbh Chlachan (on the OS map, but known locally as Loch Hacklett). The remains of an encircling wall 3ft thick are almost continuous, while the whole enclsoure is 60ft across and is connected to the north shore of the loch by a curved causeway. The remains of a circular building stand at the north end of the islet, 27ft diameter over walls 3ft thick. The entrance passage on the north, part of which remains, was evidently once roofed.
Information from OS (BRS) 4 March 1965
Sources: E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.
Field Visit (13 August 1915)
Dun Ban, Loch nan Garbh Chlachan(Loch Hacklett), Knock-cuien.
In Loch nan Garbh Chlachan, or Loch Hacklett as it is locally called, which lies about ¾ mile east of Knock-cuien, is an islet, some 25 yards from the northern shore of the loch, occupied by the ruins of Dun Ban. Though connected with the shore by a causeway with the curve to the east, part of it is so deeply submerged that the dun is dangerous of access even in the driest summer. “Around the edge of this island are still to be seen the almost continuous remains of a boundary wall about 3 feet thick, with a present height of nearly 6 feet on the west, and also showing elsewhere in several courses. The whole enclosure is 60 feet across, and within its north end stand the ruins of an erection 27 feet in diameter when measured over its3-foot wall, thus containing a circular interior of about 20 feet. This building has had its access from the north, where, almost opposite the causeway, the wall thickens to 54 inches and is pierced by an entrance passage distinctly traceable as 21 inches wide, and evidently once roofed with slabs at the level shown by its very regular top, a pair of these covering-stones still remaining towards its inner end. Immediately within the entrance is some appearance of a coved recess close to its west side; and a drain seems to have led from the interior area, emerging at a point about a yard west of the outer doorway” (1).
RCAHMS 1928, visited 13 August 1915.
OS map: North Uist xl (unnoted).
(1) Beveridge's North Uist, p. 176.
Field Visit (13 June 1965)
Dun Ban Hacklett, at NF 8605 6012, is as described above, but the entrance passage and circular building at its north end are now partially destroyed and overgrown. The causeway is now submerged.
Visited by OS (R D) 13 June 1965.
